Events Date Event 03/30/1852 Ohio restricts hours for women workers 09/26/1859 Striking miners attack "blackleg" workers in the Pittsburgh coalfields 11/05/1859 Meeting in Kentucky protests the economic domination of the East Coast 01/23/1860 Committee to help survivors of the Pemberton Mills Disaster say sufficient funds have been collected 02/20/1860 Stone cutters working on the new Catholic Cathedral in New York City down tools 02/22/1860 Thousands of shoemakers go on strike for higher wages in Lynn, Massachusetts 02/27/1860 Seven hundred striking shoemakers march from Lynn to Marblehead 03/08/1860 Undetered by heavy snow, women shoe worker strikers parade in Lynn, Massachusetts 05/08/1863 Twelve railwaymen in Michigan form the Brotherhood of the Footboard, first permanent engineers' union 05/23/1863 Ferdinand Lasalle founds the first worker's party in Germany, forerunner of today's Social Democratic Party Documents Date Title 04/29/1859 New York Times, “A Strike of Brick-yard Laborers,” April 29, 1859 03/04/1860 New York Herald, “Northern White Slaves and Southern Black Ones,” March 4, 1860 03/17/1860 New York Times, "The Massachusetts Strike," March 17, 1860 03/27/1860 Boston (MA) Advertiser, “Failure Of A Strike,” March 27, 1860 Images Shoemakers' strike at Lynn, Massachusetts, March 17, 1860, zoomable image
